PresidentDonald Trump‘s spiritual adviser and personal pastor Paula White-Cain — whose approach to Christianityis controversial— went viral this weekafter a video circulatedin which she called for “satanic pregnancies to miscarry” and inveighed against spells and witchcraft.
“In the name of Jesus, we command all satanic pregnancies to miscarry right now,” White-Cain said in the clip, which has been shared around Twitter in recent days.
“We declare that anything that’s been conceived in satanic wombs, that it will miscarry, it will not be able to carry forth any plan of destruction, any plan of harm,” White-Cain said.
Her words drew criticism from some other Christians, though she later said she was being “taken out of context.”
“No pregnancies are satanic,” said James Martin, a Jesuit priest and editor of the JesuitAmerica Magazine. “Every child is a gift from God. No one should ever pray for any woman to miscarry. No one should ever pray for evil or harm to befall another person. Jesus asked us to pray for our persecutors, not to curse them. To love our neighbors as ourselves.”
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The advocacy division, which the president established through an executive order, pushes for more religious voices in government affairs, according to theTimes.
White-Cain is the one who “led [Trump] to Christ,” according to a statement evangelical pastor and author James Dobson gave toCharisma Magazine, a Christian news outlet. The two have reportedly known each other since 2002.
According to theTimesandReuters, White-Cain’s approach to religion aligns with the so-called “prosperity gospel” among some Christians, in which material success and wealth are seen as the result of God’s will and the faithful are therefore encouraged to donate generously to their religious leaders.
Her viral prayer — in which she also railed against magic — called for “any strange winds” against President Trump, 73, and her church to be broken.
“Let pride fall! Let pride fall! Let pride fall!” she said, before leaping into her plea for satanic miscarriages.
White-Cain did not respond to a request for comment. On Twitter, however, she wrote that she was misunderstood.
The Ephesians 6:12 passagereads: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Areported81 percent of evangelical Christians voted for Trump in the 2016 election, according to Pew Research Center. But there have been divisions.
In December,Christianity Todaycalled for its readers to support the impeachment case against Trump, which sparked both praise and backlash from other evangelical publications.
“No President has done more for the Evangelical community, and it’s not even close,” Trump tweeted in December in response toChristianity Today‘s op-ed.
“The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president’s political opponents,”Christianity Todayeditor Mark Galli wrote. “That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral.”
source: people.com
